[ShroomiaCo]

I am having difficulty understanding State Machines, even after looking at Dogstopper's tutorial on them, I am still do not understand them. More specifically, there are some parts of the code in that tutorial like SpaceFrame and the listeners. I understand how listeners work, but for some reason I do not get this one. />

I am trying to figure out how to use them for further application, so there is no goal as of yet, but one thing I am trying to do is make a menu that can take you to different points in the program (e.g. Help)

On a side, I would like to know whether or not state machines are a good choice for programs, if so what kinds.

I have tried several approaches but most of them got cluttered and/or too complicated.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have been struggling with these for a while.

[farrell2k]

Try Mac's tutorial. I thought it was good.

[ShroomiaCo]

Thanks, helped a little. And I put the wrong link My link

[pbl]

State machine can be simply resume:
- you are in a State
- an event happens
- you react to it
- you end up in a state (may be the same one)

My teacher (30 years ago had a macho analogy but I always remember it)

- you are sleeping
- baby cries
- wake up wife
- go back to sleep

still works

[ShroomiaCo]

Thanks to all of you, buuuut I managed to figure it out through a weird process of experimentation and it works now....
Thanks anyways.
Yay for state machines.